need ubuntu breezy upgrade help

[eoinmonty]

Hi,

I am fairly new to linux an would greatly appreciate some help.
I am trying to upgrade from Hoary to Breezy however i keep getting this error

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
abiword-common: Depends: abiword but it is not installed or
abiword-gnome but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

I tried using synaptic to fix abiword-commens which it sais its broken however it
failed.

thanks in advance.

[jens]

So did you try including -f? (sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade)

[bryansmith]

If you continue to get many errors, it might be a better solution to download Breezy. With this, you can also re-install later should you need to.

Bryan

[eoinmonty]

that worked thanks

[eoinmonty]

wait no sorry i get this error

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 857 package `abiword-gnome':
missing version
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[jens]

So their's still nothing upgraded?
Try to install all missing packages first, and do the upgrade again.
If you don't have your original repos anymore, download them manually(they should get replaced anyway):
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/abiword/
...and install them like this:
sudo dpkg -i packagename

PS: keep in mind that auto-upgrades do include a risk!

[eoinmonty]

i attempted to do that and i got this error

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 857 package `abiword-gnome':
missing version

so i tried to install the abiword-gnome package in the same way and got the exact same error

Thanks for the help!

[eoinmonty]

also if i try to remove abiword i get this error

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
abiword-common: Depends: abiword but it is not going to be installed or
abiword-gnome but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

[jens]

also if i try to remove abiword i get this error

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
abiword-common: Depends: abiword but it is not going to be installed or
abiword-gnome but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

This sounds like an error for installing something
Did you do: "sudo apt-get remove abiword-commen abiword" ?

[eoinmonty]

well the main thing is im fairly sure i never got abiword?!

when i do that i get yet another error

E: Couldn't find package abiword-commen

so i cant install/reinstall or ininstall anything to do with abi word